* Information density isn't configurable. Slack doesn't come without its own set of gripes, for sure. Hope you didn't just reveal corporate secrets to China. On Skype, you search for your coworker by typing in their name and you end up finding some other person instead. I can search for people on Slack and know that I'm communicating with who I intended to communicate. I can log on to a private Slack and know that the people in there belong there. Skype used to have an API but that's been deprecated. Admittedly, that's a walled garden so it's a double-edged sword. you to whoever at Microsoft decided to get rid of that I used chat history search every day as part of my workflow. Skype used to have this, but removed it when they rewrote it in Electron. * it has a history I can actually search. I would expect 2018 to be the year where people start questioning the utility of "Slack everywhere" and not blindly jump on the Slack bandwagon because that's what great startups do.īetter than "Skype with a way better UI". Everything is now a "Chat" that dilutes the technical discussion because it needs to be responded "directly".
It also seems to me that now that Slack became the norm for communication, I almost don't receive well written emails with well-argued technical discussions anymore. If you shut down Slack and appear as Offline people assume you are not working. It fosters a "Always on" culture, where irrelevant chats are exchanged publicly to advertise how much work is being done. It seems that every company//startup has to use slack nowadays to pretend to be cool again.Įverytime I have a serious conversation about the productivity gains or losses of Slack though, it is pretty clear to me that it is more disruptive than helpful. This is a step in corporate IT that I really cannot fully understand. When is this overhype for Slack going to stop? It is a chat application with a slightly improved UI like it existed 30 years ago.
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